Thus preaching. he was naturally interfered with by the police The distance between the poor miserable Chinamen to whom he preached and the official governing class is almost inconceivable to a man educated in this country. This imumense gulf between the governing class and the masses is the great characteristic of Chinese civilization. When my honorable friend from Mississippi talked of 460.000.000 Chinamen. he ought to have told you that the mass of these are in a state of abject poverty and submissive slavery to less than 100.000 Chinese and Mongolian officials. The middle class of that country is absolutely effaced. Let any man in China who has a dollar of property raise his voice against the government today. and tomorrow he is a pauper.
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The speaker describes the Chinese masses as being in a state of 'abject poverty and submissive slavery'.